Radiation pattern of plasmonic nano-antennas in a homogeneous medium

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 13263-13268

  Sugita, Takafumi ^a   Yanazawa, Kaori ^a   Maeda, Satoshi ^a   Hofmann, Holger F ^a   Kadoya, Yutaka ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNAS; PLASMONS; SUBSTRATES;

ANGULAR RESOLUTION; ELECTRIC DIPOLE; GLASS SUBSTRATES; HOMOGENEOUS MEDIUM; INDEX-MATCHING; YAGI-UDA ANTENNAS;

DIRECTIONAL PATTERNS (ANTENNA);

EID: 84901837573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.013263     Document Type: Article

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